Cherie Blair and John Prescott publicly washing, spinning and hanging out to dry the dirty linen of the Brown-Blair relationship.
The invitation list was a who's who of British political life, past and present, including former prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major.
WSJ: Global Figures to Pay Respects at Funeral for Margaret Thatcher in London
The invitation list is a who's who of British political life, past and present, including former prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major.
WSJ: Global Figures to Pay Respects at Funeral for Margaret Thatcher in London
Replacing Dennis Blair and John Brennan with individuals who actually comprehend the dangers we are facing and are capable of devising strategies for countering them would be important first steps towards making possible the sort of course corrections that are so urgently needed.
"We need more Tony Blair and less John Kerry, " he explained when he sat in our office.
"The Net has emerged over the past four to five years as a natural delivery and learning tool, " says Class.com CEO John Blair.
Such as, er, Tony Blair and Boris Johnson and John Major and Chuka Umunna and, oh yes, David Cameron.
After the 1992 general election he was made shadow trade minister under both John Smith and Tony Blair.
John Major, Mr Blair's Tory predecessor, had relied on a handful of civil servants to prepare his papers and run his diary, and a small Policy Unit to keep him in touch with policy developments in Whitehall.
Little wonder that many senior members of Mr Blair's cabinet, including John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, Gordon Brown, the chancellor and Jack Straw, the home secretary, have let it be known that they would prefer to stick with the current first-past-the-post system.
That seems to have been the lesson that Tony Blair drew from the incessant culling in John Major's sleaze-prone government.
"John is John, " shrugged Tony Blair the following day, after pictures of Mr Prescott scuffling with a bystander who threw an egg at him had been beamed around the world.
With the Tories gripped by ideological struggle over the prospect of British membership of the single European currency, many businessmen feel more comfortable with Mr Blair's stated aim (which matched John Major's, but not that of many of his Conservative colleagues) of treating euro-membership as a practical decision to be taken on economic grounds.
Boris now takes on the role once played by Michael Heseltine to Margaret Thatcher, Michael Portillo to John Major or Gordon Brown to Tony Blair.
In contrast, "OLTL's" Erika Slezak (Victoria Lord), along with Ted King (Tomas Delgado), Michael Easton (John McBain) and Kassie DePaiva (Blair Cramer), among others, had closed deals to stay in the fictitious town of Llanview.
Apart from Sedgefield and Mr Clinton, the other main influence on Mr Blair came from the communitarian ideas of the philosopher John Macmurray and later thinkers, such as the American sociologist, Amitai Etzioni, whom he met in 1995.
Again, this mistake was understandable, not least because Mr Blair did see constitutional reform as an unavoidable chore bequeathed by John Smith.
Whereas republicans in 1995 bitterly condemned John Major's government, from the outset Tony Blair was regarded more positively.
Thus it has been a relatively harmonious place under Mr Heath, a bossed-about place under Mrs Thatcher, a collegial place (at least to begin with) under John Major, a tougher and more focused place under Mr Blair.
When Tony Blair jetted off to a paradisal beach or palazzo, the cameo mostly fell to John Prescott, his comic sidekick.
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Partly because the press feels guilty at the moment: aware that it hounded John Major and his government, ashamed of its initial sycophancy towards Mr Blair.
All the spin doctoring in the world cannot hide the fact that Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott has been deprived of a huge part of his powerbase by Tony Blair.
Others to arrive included Tony Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell, former Labour leader Neil Kinnock, Scottish Secretary Dr John Reid, MSP Margo McDonald, Cardinal Winning, leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland, and the Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway.
Mr Blair's confidence in Mr Mandelson especially infuriated Gordon Brown, the chancellor of the exchequer, who believes he might today have been prime minister if Mr Mandelson had not betrayed him by throwing his support behind Mr Blair in the succession battle that followed the death of the party's former leader, John Smith, in 1994.
John Prescott, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw and Robin Cook have all performed to Mr Blair's satisfaction, give or take a few ups-and-downs.
So far, the Blair team's occasional fumblings are as nothing to the farce seen in the final days of John Major's Conservative administration.
"Clearly, Blair's authority in the party, although not smashed, has shown its limits, " Professor John Curtice, of the University of Strathclyde, told Reuters.
One by one, the main players in the peace process have exited the main political stage, from SDLP leader John Hume to Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble to US President Bill Clinton to prime ministers Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern.
John Houston was then blocked inches short of the line following a quickly-taken tap penalty by Mike Blair.
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